Female Betta Eating Eggs
Is this dropsy or is femal betta fish full of eggs.
Female betta eating eggs. With the mouth brooding betta species it is the female who starts the spawning. Remove the female because sometimes they will eat the eggs. Female swims and eats like nothing is wrong.
This is what happen when there is no nest male betta gets very aggressive. My first time with bettas and i made a lot of booboos was told that my female won t lay her eggs soon so when my. Breeding bettas female eating eggs so ive got my breeding tank set up i slowly introduced the pair.
I thought she was just full of eggs but not sure now. Some others may even lay up to 500 eggs at a time. They have the same needs when it comes to diet temperature and water circulation.
The female bettas are fertile as they can lay between 30 to 40 eggs at a spawn. Spawning will generally take place inside a plant pot with the same procedure of most anabantids the male embracing the female. After spawning the male will gather the eggs in his mouth or the female may pick the eggs up into her mouth and spit them to him.
Caring for a single female betta is really no different than taking care of a male fish. The fry will hatch after 2 3 days. If they have a bubble nest some females will bring the eggs up into the nest and tend to them.
A female betta fish can lay eggs through its egg hole when fertilized. They also don t lay eggs in the traditional sense but rather just drop them to the floor. Been like this for months.